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EP 6 | Pourquoi j’assiste à autant de festivals ? (Why do I go to so many festivals?) · The Learn French With Alexa Podcast

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  Bonjour B Ave. and Notre podcast number six actually at Learn
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  French with Alexa. Now, as always in today's
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  podcast, I'm going to read you a short passage in French based on
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  a fun fact about me, Alexa Polydoro.
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  Not that you want to know. It's so random.
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  Anyway, the text is of A1A2 level, which means it is of
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  beginner slash intermediate level.
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  Now the purpose of this podcast is for you to listen to a simple
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  text, OK, but learn a grammatical point based on that
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  text and learn a little bit about me, Alexa Politoho.
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  Now I'm going to ask you a question after the first
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  reading, OK? And I will tell you what we are
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  focusing on. I will translate the full text
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  eventually for you, but it could be that you know exactly what
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  it's about, so listen to the text and think what is the text
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  about? Ecote attentive Mon Tulisa de
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  participate atrois festival en premiere a festival en soule
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  fossil en Juan que le Dorset en anglitaire laba je participate
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  de conference E apondre plan de novel shows Angelia je vea Ave.
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  Don ESU de la France PO de coveria de Pierce de tatre des
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  pecta clodadori por termini on September de para Charleville
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  messiere pora sisteo festival de marionette jador Han contre EDI
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  escuite avec de person de milieu di Ferran SE tofete in Mer
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  villus Faso de me reconnecte avec MC re activity.
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  OK, so we've heard the text. OK, what is it about?
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  What is the text about? What did you hear?
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  Well, the first words are trois festival should participate
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  trois festival. So the main focus on this text
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  is about festivals. It's about how many festivals I
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  attend in a year. Trois festival.
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  So here's my first question. Kelly Le Twazian festival Cujefe
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  Dolani. What is the third festival that
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  I attend in the year? Fair Dolani.
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  So fair and festival to attend a festival.
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  It's one of those idiom fair calculus shows.
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  OK, we have seen that in another podcast previously.
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  Now fair and festival is to attend a festival.
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  So what's the third festival I attend?
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  Listen to the text one more time.
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  And in this text, I am focusing on the little word called ah ah
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  means in. So let's have a look at how we
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  use it instead of Dong Dong, which also means in.
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  So you're going to hear it a few times.
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  We'll focus on that at the end. Now answer this question.
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  Kelly le Troisian festival cujefe donani.
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  What is festival #3? Listen carefully E cuite
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  attentive MO tulison de participatrois festival en promi
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  and festival chori fossil en Juan quia le Dorset en anglutter
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  la BA je BA participate de conference E aprando PLA de
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  novel shows Angeloue je vea Ave. De la France for de cuvier de
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  Pierce de tiat Ed spectacular dardo rue por termini on
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  September de para Charleville messiere pora sisteo festival de
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  marionette chador en contre discu TE avec de person de
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  milieu de feron sit on fete in mere vieux Faso de Mer
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  reconnecte avec ma creativity, right?
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  OK, what is the third festival that I do every year?
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  I mean, what is the 1st and the second for that matter.
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  Did you hear that? Now let's have a look at the
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  text. OK, I talk about 3 festivals en
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  premier, a festival surely fossil en Juan.
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  So that's the first festival I attend in the year.
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  It's in June en Juan, so listen to that en premier, first en
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  premier and festival Soleil fossil en Juan and again in June
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  en Juan. Now en premier en festival
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  Soleil fossil en Juan. In June I go to a fossil
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  festival en Juilliere, so that's the second one.
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  Gervais a Ave. So in July I go to Ave.
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  Gervais Ave. and then when I say por termini, that's the answer
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  to the first question. Kelly le troisian festival cuje
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  fedonline por termini to finish on September.
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  In September, je fellow festival de marionette.
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  OK Festival de Marionette. I attend the puppet festival now
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  for people who are interested or not listen anyway, Charlotte
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  Ville Messier is the capital, the world capital of puppets.
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  That's where you would find the the most amazing puppeteers and
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  that's where the the best school of perpetry puppetry.
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  Can you say puppetry? Marionettiste a Charleville
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  Messier. Charleville Messier just
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  happened to be also the town of famous writer and poet Artur
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  Rambo. So if you don't know the town,
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  which is absolutely stunning, do check it out.
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  It's a it's a really cool town. So that was the answer to the
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  first question. Kelly Le Troisien festival Cuche
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  Ferdin Lane the Troisian festival que je fes Don lane SE
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  le festival de marionette A Charleville messier.
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  OK, did you manage to get this one?
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  Well done if you did. OK, bravo.
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  Now here's my question. I'm going to read the text the
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  second time. Porqua jaciste a autumn the
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  festival. So why do I do so many
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  festivals? You know, I mean, these are the
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  main 3, the three ones. But there is a punk festival in
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  August, which I do sometimes. That's why it's so random.
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  You're going to think, OK, this woman, she does a fossil
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  festival, puppet festival, a punk festival and an art
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  festival. Why porqua je siste at Auton de
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  festival? Why do I attend so many Auton
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  festivals? Let's read the text the second
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  time. Listen very carefully.
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  And can you hear the en as well, which is the little word I want
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  you to learn to listen. You participate at Troy Festival
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  en premiere a festival sole fossil en Juan quilio Don Dorset
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  en non gluter laba je BA participate at the conference.
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  A apron plan de novel shows en Juliet je vie A vignon Don lesue
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  de la France port de Co vie de Pierce de TE art.
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  It is spectac DA de re port termini on September che para
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  charle Ville messier pora sisteo festival de marionette jadeau
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  con contre discute de avec de person de milieu de feron sit on
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  fete in mere vieux Faso de muro connecte avec ma creativity.
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  OK, So what is the answer to porqua J sista out on the
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  festival? Why do I attend so many
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  festivals? It's in the last sentence, isn't
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  it? Set on fete in Merveillus Faso,
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  the Meru connecte avec ma creativity.
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  It is in fact. So here's another little word on
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  fete in fact, OK in Merveillus Faso.
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  A marvelous way to reconnect with my creativity the more
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  reconnected avec my creativity. Now believe it or not, being a
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  YouTube is slightly creative, but not as creative as I would
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  like it to be. And because I love the arts in
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  general, I tend to attend a lot of different festivals that
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  stimulate my intellect, which is high not anyways.
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  So chassis AA bucu de festival pascucher geme moreau connecte
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  avec ma creativity. Now here's my question.
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  What about you? How many festivals do you do in
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  the year or not at all? Leave a comment.
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  I would love to hear if you have any suggestions in Paris, in
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  anywhere in the world, wherever you know, maybe that would be of
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  interest for me and you. You can share it.
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  Use code Alexa POD for 15% off OK is the third reading with the
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  translation. Listen very carefully.
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  What we are doing here is we're focusing on the little word OK.
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  We're covering the preposition and also it's an adverbial
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  pronoun in lesson 9 of the course Learn French with Alexa.
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  The full course OK on plus a place is covered in Lesson 9 and
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  on as an adverbial pronoun is covered in lesson 26 of the
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  course. OK tulisan je participatra
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  festival OK, so every year participate 23 festivals.
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  And by the way, a lot of the words ending with AL in French
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  in the plural form will be all. For example, Jeanal Jeanal
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  Cheval Cheval OK, here festival is an exception to the rules.
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  Even in the pre rule form, it is still al with an S Troy
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  festival. So en premier en premier OK,
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  here is en and then first en premier en festival Shirley
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  fossil en Joan. So first a fossil festival in
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  June en Joan en Joan en May en September en whatever OK.
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  For example, if you wanted to say, well, I'm going to Paris in
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  September, you would say Gervais a Paris en September que alieux
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  dolo Dorset en nonglatter, which takes place in the region of
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  Dorset in England. When you're referring to a
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  country, feminine country, you would say en, for example, en
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  nonglatter en France, for example, OK, en nespani en
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  Italy, en belgique. If the country was masculine,
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  you would say, oh, oh, Portugal, for example, oh, Japan.
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  I know, it's crazy, isn't it, that even for countries, we have
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  feminine and masculine countries.
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  Now, if you look at the ending of those words, as in anglitter,
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  Italy, Espana Belgica, it ends with an E, so it's likely to be
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  feminine. So we would say, oh, but if you
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  listen to Portugal and Japan, there is no E sound at the end.
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  So it's likely to be oh, Laba Jebel participate at the
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  conference. I upon plan the shows, Nouvelle
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  shows. So over there I can participate
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  to conferences, OK, lectures and learn a lot of new things.
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  OK, Now if you look at Nouvelle, nouvelle is an adjective that
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  has E double NES. And why is that?
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  Why is it in a feminine and plural form?
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  It's because shows things is feminine and plural.
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  Now remember that all adjectives in French have to agree in
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  number and gender with the word it refers to.
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  In that case it's shows the adjective is nouvelle.
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  It reflects shows Aunt Juliet. So when it comes to Mons, you
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  say Aunt Juliet on Joie in June, in September and so on Gervais
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  Ave. Don le sue de la France.
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  So when talking to a town, you don't say, oh, just like the
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  country you say A. So Gervais Ave.
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  I'm going to Ave. Don le Sue de la France in the
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  South of France. La France.
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  OK, la France, you need the article here.
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  Prodeco Vrier de Piaz de Tia Tre de Spectacular de rue in order
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  to discover Pierce the tea art plays and art St. arts you know
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  spectacle shows Portermini and to finish portermini on
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  September Jeba a Charlie Ville Messier.
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  So have a look at all these references.
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  You know a avenue a Charlie Ville Messier a who don't le
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  Dorset for region but a would refer to town.
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  So for example, you would say Gervais a Paris en France, I'm
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  going to Paris in France. OK, two different prepositions
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  here now, Jeba, Charles Ville Messier, I'm going.
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  I go to Charles Ville Messier, Pora sisto festival de
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  marionette chador en contre EDI discutae de Person de milieu de
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  Feron. I love to meet and to talk to
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  different people of different walks of life.
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  Now sit on fete in mert they use faison, the mert connected havec
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  my creativity. It is in fact.
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  So here you go on fete OK? In fact in mert they use faison
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  the mert connected havec my creativity.
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  A marvelous way to reconnect myself.
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  Reconnecting havec my creativity with my creativity.
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  Now again mert they use here is in the singular feminine form
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  because fasen na fasen the way OK is here in the feminine
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  singular form. And like I said or the adjective
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  has to agree in number and jumper in number and jumper in
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  number and gender with a word it is related to.
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  Now tell me in the comments, do you attend any festivals in the
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  year and which one are they so I can meet you there.
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  Hopefully you enjoyed this exercise and you've learnt a
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  lot. Now remember that we cover all
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  And that's it for me. Au revoir habiento bizu bizu.